Zenna Atkins, stressing these were her personal views, earlier told the Sunday Times "every school should have a useless teacher".
Atkins, the chairman of Office for Standards in Education in UK, stressed that she is not telling schools not to eradicate bad teaching, but her point is that bad teachers may serve a purpose.
Actually, I do agree with her, in that a bad teacher can "teach" students something. For example, a crappy teacher may force students to learn on their own, to form study groups and assist each others, or even prompt students to take this issue up with the school and gain a lesson on activism. Lacking a concrete real life example, one can look at Harry Potter, who, in the fifth book, set up his own group for his peers to learn what their lousy teacher refused to impart.
Nonetheless, for bad teachers to "teach well", it will depend on the students themselves. If they are apathetic on their education, then bad teachers are bad. And it may also depend on the subject itself, because certain fields require much guidance.
So basically, bad teachers teaches students self-learning. And that's a quality one should have.
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